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DeFi Education Fund and Beba drop airdrop lawsuit against U.S. SEC
The DeFi Education Fund, a prominent lobbying group, and Beba, a Texas-based apparel company, have dropped a lawsuit against the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Summary ...
The 1.x Files: January call digest
January 14th tl;dc (too long, didn't call) Disclaimer: This is a digest of the topics discussed in the recurring Eth1.x research call, and doesn't represent finalized plans or commitments to network upgrades. The main topics of this call were Rough data quantifying advantages of switching to a binary trie structureTransition strategies and potential challenges for a switch to binary tries"Merklizing" contract...
OpenSea delays SEA token launch as weak market conditions stall rollout
NFT marketplace OpenSea has decided to delay the launch of its native token, SEA. Summary OpenSea delays SEA token launch,...
The 1.x Files: The Stateless Ethereum Tech Tree
I started to write a post that detailed a "roadmap" for Ethereum 1.x research and the path to stateless Ethereum, and realized that it's not actually a roadmap at all —— at least not in the sense we're used to seeing from something like a product or company. The 1.x team, although working toward a common goal, is...
Inside the infrastructure. How Skywinex powers its web3 investment platform
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Solidity 0.6.x features: try/catch statement
The try/catch syntax introduced in 0.6.0 is arguably the biggest leap in error handling capabilities in Solidity, since reason strings for revert and require were released in v0.4.22. Both try and catch have been reserved keywords since v0.5.9 and now we can use them to handle failures in external function calls without rolling back the complete transaction (state...
HIVE Digital quietly trades hashprice for GPU hours
Under hostile Swedish tax rules, HIVE Digital is winding down Bitcoin mining and quadrupling Canadian AI data‑center capacity, swapping halving risk for contracted GPU revenue. Summary ...
eth2 quick update no. 8
Keep it coming tldr; Runtime Verification audit and verification of deposit contract Runtime Verification recently completed their audit and formal verification of the eth2 deposit contract bytecode. This is a significant milestone bringing us closer to the eth2 Phase 0 mainnet. Now that this work is complete, I ask for review and comment by the community. If there are gaps or...
Polymarket’s Iran surge helps trigger Washington’s crackdown bill
After billions in bets on a U.S.–Iran strike and an insider scandal on platforms like Polymarket, Democrats push the DEATH BETS Act, targeting prediction markets that trade on war, terror and death. Summary ...
Validated, staking on eth2: #2 – Two ghosts in a trench coat
Special thanks to Sacha Yves Saint-Leger & Danny Ryan for review. In this installment, we'll discuss the consensus mechanisms behind eth2. Eth2 has a novel approach to deciding which block is the head of the chain, along with which blocks are and are not a part of the chain. By using a hybrid between the two mechanisms, eth2 aims to...
